Word: meats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Other species are also being endangered by the meat shortage. The California fish and game department reports many more cases of deer poaching this year than last. "Poaching generally involved hippies trying to live off the land, but now we are getting older people trying to combat the rising cost of meat," says a park warden. Last week 100 pheasants were filched from their pens at the Quemahoning Trap and Field Club at Laurel Mountain, Pa. Even hijackings have been reported. Burglars looted 420 canned hams from a tractor truck parked off Interstate 70 near Pittsburgh...
What is the main cause for the sharp rise in meat and other food prices, and who benefits most from it? Consumers often complain that big business is the culprit, but that, in fact, is a bad rap. Supermarkets operate on profit margins as thin as wrapping paper; .9% on sales is the current average margin. The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. lost $55 million last year largely because of its "WHO" discounting drive. The so-called middlemen are also largely blameless, though President Nixon last year fingered them as the main perpetrators of the food price jump. The meat...
...food industry. They buy more and more frozen foods and TV dinners, which add 25% to food costs (but really amount to built-in maid service). Restrictive labor union practices contribute to boosting costs. For example, Iowa Beef Processers, Inc. would like to ship all of its meat butchered and boxed; since heavy fat and bones have already been removed, transportation costs are dramatically reduced. In some major urban centers, however, butchers refuse to handle precut meat. They insist on keeping the jobs for themselves, despite higher costs for consumers...
...most visible form of Hinduism in the West is the Krishna Consciousness movement, founded in the U.S. in 1966 by Swami A.C. Bhaktivedanta. Its saffron-robed "Hare Krishna" chanters are found on the street corners of many American cities. Like many Hindus, they abstain from meat and alcohol-even from eggs, which they see as embryonic life. A married woman is expected to renounce sex when she is 30 and send her children away to a school in Texas. Like austere Christian monks, the group members rise in the middle of the night to pray. Their Hare Krishna mantra...
...President's food-price announcement definitely did not quiet angry voices in Congress and the labor movement that are calling for far more drastic action. Said Representative Leonor K. Sullivan, a Missouri Democrat: "The President, after issuing dire warnings about the dangers of controlling meat prices, did it. How can we believe all these dire warnings about the dangers of controlling interest rates and other areas?" Like her, Congressmen and labor leaders have become convinced that the only way to stop a debilitating new round of inflation is for the President in effect to declare his entire Phase...